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form of a disc between two horns, it is shaped with a number of narrowing bands going outwards from the wearer's head, to represent the rays of the Sun. These may be represented either as flat, on the same plane as the circlet of the crown, or rising at right angles to it.
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on at least one coin while he was alive, it only became common, and sometimes usual, on coins in the 3rd century. Histories record that
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Cooney, Kathlyn M. (2012), "Apprenticeship and Figures Ostraca from the Ancient Egyptian Village of Deir el-Medina",
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Lavan, Luke (2011), "Political Talimans? Residual 'Pagan' Statues in Late Antique Public Space",
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Crown, wreath, diadem, or other headgear symbolizing the Sun or powers associated with the Sun
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Archaeology and Apprenticeship: Body Knowledge, Identity, and Communities of Practice
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Egyptian Iconography on Syro-Palestinian Cylinder Seals of the Middle Bronze Age
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Helios in his chariot, early 4th century BC, Temple of
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Faces of Power: Alexander's Image and Hellenistic Politics
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in a posthumous coin issued after his deification, and on
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Constantine, Divine Emperor of the Christian Golden Age
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Index

Sun crown
Fulgens corona

Bahram I
Sassanian Empire
Ctesiphon
crown
wreath
diadem
Ancient Egyptian
ancient Egypt
Horus
Hathor
Isis
pharaohs
Ptolemaic Egypt
Alexander the Great
Helios
Shunga Empire
Greco-Bactrian
stupa
Bharhut
Ptolemy III Euergetes
Amen-Re, wearing a tall feather crown and sun disk (715–664 BC)
Amen-Re
Egyptian aegis of Isis wearing solar crown (664–343 BC)
aegis
Coin of Ptolemy IV Philopator, depicting his deified father Ptolemy III (d. 222 BC)
Ptolemy IV Philopator
Ptolemy III

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